The bodies of God and the world of ancient Israel [electronic resource] /
Benjamin D. Sommer.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- 1 online resource (xv, 334 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
God's body and the Bible's interpreters -- Fluidity of divine embodiment and selfhood : Mesopotamia and Canaan -- The fluidity model in ancient Israel -- The rejection of the fluidity model in ancient Israel -- God's bodies and sacred space (1) : tent, ark, and temple -- God's bodies and sacred space (2) : difficult beginnings -- The perception of divinity in biblical tradition : implications and afterlife -- Appendix : monotheism and polytheism in ancient israel.